Edward Frenkel
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first heard Apr 2023
last heard Apr 2023
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So how interesting.
These structures exist in dimension one, two, four, and eight, which are all powers of two.
Two squared is four, two to the third power is eight.
That's one of the bigger mysteries in mathematics, why it is so.
So that's a hint.
That's a hint of...
what's missing in our high school curriculum.
The kind of fascinating- The mystery.
Mysteries, yes.
The appreciation of the mysterious.
So in other words, yes, we resolved this one mystery that we understood that square root of negative one is real, is meaningful.
We build a theory to service those, to describe those numbers.
Did we find the theory of everything?
No, because we then invited other mysteries.
Because we pulled the veil, so to speak, or we pushed the frontier.
And then new things get illuminated, which we couldn't see before.
That's how I see the process of discovering mathematics.
It's an endless, limitless pursuit.
What does it feel like?
What is that place?
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